Conferences and events
The Regional Studies Association runs a programme of international conferences and events based on excellence that has been growing steadily over the years and plays a major role in the Association’s aim in supporting its members disseminate their research. These events also create debates and offer opportunities for those who wish to be part of a community where high quality events are also the place to network within a friendly atmosphere, present their work to international audiences and strengthen their careers.
Please note: pre-2011 conference papers can be made available on request by emailing office@regionalstudies.org. Please include the name of the conference, the name of the paper, and the name of the author.
Next conference
Regional Studies Association Winter Conference 2013
- 22nd November, 2013 9:00:am - 5:30:pm
- Holiday Inn, Bloomsbury, London
Forthcoming conferences
- 16th December, 2013 - 18th December, 2013 Regional Studies Association International Conference 2013
Recent conferences
- 5th May, 2013 - 8th May, 2013 Regional Studies Association European Conference 2013
- 23rd November Regional Studies Association Winter Conference 2012
- 2nd November Regional Studies Association Early Career Conference 2012
- 24th June, 2012 - 27th June, 2012 Regional Studies Association Global Conference 2012
- 13th May, 2012 - 16th May, 2012 Regional Studies Association European Conference 2012
- 25th November Regional Studies Association Winter Conference 2011
- 17th April, 2011 - 20th April, 2011 Regional Studies Association Annual International Conference 2011
- 2nd April, 2007 - 5th April, 2007 Regions in Focus
Next event
Creative Regions Summer School
- 24th June, 2013 - 28th June, 2013
- Cardiff School of Management, Cardiff Metropolitan University
The Creative Regions Summer School is an exciting week of intense learning for postgraduate students, practitioners and policy makers interested in engaging with the current debates and research surrounding the role of the creative economy in local and regional development.
Forthcoming events
- 24th June, 2013 - 28th June, 2013 Creative Regions Summer School | Hosted by Creative Regions in Europe: challenges and opportunities
- 7th July, 2013 - 21st July, 2013 POL-LOC Summer School | Hosted by Policy Making and Politics at the Local Level
- 28th October, 2013 - 30th October, 2013 New Peripherality: Scaled, Contested, and Relational | Hosted by Peripheral and Marginal Regions in Northern Europe
- 12th November Growing Regional Economies: Wales and the South West of England in Relative Context | Hosted by South West
- 14th November Growing Regional Economies: Wales and the South West of England in Relative Context | Hosted by Wales
- 5th February, 2014 - 6th February, 2014 Leadership in Urban and Regional Development: Debates and New Directions | Hosted by Leadership and Urban and Regional Development
Recent events
- 16th May TBC | Hosted by West Midlands
- 16th May, 2013 - 17th May, 2013 International Seminar “Finance in Transition: Lessons for the Future” | Hosted by Geographies of Finance and Post-Socialist Transformations
- 23rd April Women Entrepreneurs, Training and Education | Hosted by Entrepreneurship, Gender and Structural Transformation
- 11th April New Dimensions of regional policy – lessons from institutional economics and the Social Justice debate | Hosted by West Midlands
- 11th April, 2013 - 13th April, 2013 Governance in (Post)transition | Hosted by Policy Making and Politics at the Local Level